El-Sissi donates half his wealth to budget

EGYPT'S President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi says he will donate half of his personal wealth and half of his salary to help the country's crippling economy, the improvement of which he says requires sacrifices from all Egyptians.

EL-SISSI on Tuesday also said he had asked the government to amend a newly drafted budget - the largest in Egypt's history at $US115 billion ($A124.43 billion) - because it had a deficit he said was unacceptable. The draft budget kept Egypt's budget deficit hovering around 12 per cent.